Hi all. I had a thread a couple of months ago about my plans for our
Lil Snoozy. We got the new rig home about 3 weeks ago and I wanted to show the first phase of our plan to personalize the trailer for our specific needs.
We got the trailer without a mattress, sofa,
battery or charger. Phase one was to upgrade the
electrical system to give the ability to run the
fridge for at least 24 hours on
battery power and recharge the
battery with less than half a day of
generator run-time. I installed a Samlex 600 watt true sine wave inverter, an Iota 30 amp battery charger, a Victron Battery monitor and a DPDT switch to feed the
fridge outlet plus another duplex outlet with either inverter power or shore power.
I also built a tongue box to house two Trojan T105 6v batteries, a Honda EU2000i
generator and the 30 amp shore power cord plus hoses and a little miscellaneous junk.
Tongue
weight with the new box and batteries is 240 pounds; it's 270 with the
generator added.
Here's a top view of the new tongue box:
It's made from 3/8 marine mahogany plywood with a 5/8 doubler under the batteries.
It is just high enough to cover the batteries, which are pushed to the rear as far as possible to minimize tongue
weight of the 124 pounds of lead. It's not too obtrusive from the side view:
A close-up of where the batteries go:
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